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Monday in the Fourth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[244] Isa 65:17-21;Ps 30:2+4, 5-6, 11-12a+13b; John 4:43-54.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
70th anniversary of the death of F. Alfred Batt (81) d. 1952 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales.
Birthday:
79th birthday of P. Ronald HIDAKA (born this day in 1943).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1541
The First Companions gather to write the Constitutions of the Society in conformity with the Bull of Approval, "Regimini Militantis Ecclesiae," of Paul III.
1848
In Rome, Pope Pius IX, having intimated his wish that the Society should leave. the city because of the Revolution, Rev. Fr. General Roothaan and the Assistants prepared to depart.
1913
The Imperial Ministry of Education in Japan gives permission to open Sophia University.
